blog/data/2014-09-25-lsdvd.txt

   1 Title: Suddenly I am the new upstream of the lsdvd command line tool
   2 Tags: english, debian, multimedia, lsdvd
   3 Date: 2014-09-25 11:20
   4
   5 <p>I use the <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/">lsdvd tool</a>
   6 to handle my fairly large DVD collection.  It is a nice command line
   7 tool to get details about a DVD, like title, tracks, track length,
   8 etc, in XML, Perl or human readable format.  But lsdvd have not seen
   9 any new development since 2006 and had a few irritating bugs affecting
  10 its use with some DVDs.  Upstream seemed to be dead, and in January I
  11 sent a small probe asking for a version control repository for the
  12 project, without any reply.  But I use it regularly and would like to
  13 get <a href="https://packages.qa.debian.org/lsdvd">an updated version
  14 into Debian</a>.  So two weeks ago I tried harder to get in touch with
  15 the project admin, and after getting a reply from him explaining that
  16 he was no longer interested in the project, I asked if I could take
  17 over.  And yesterday, I became project admin.</p>
  18
  19 <p>I've been in touch with a Gentoo developer and the Debian
  20 maintainer interested in joining forces to maintain the upstream
  21 project, and I hope we can get a new release out fairly quickly,
  22 collecting the patches spread around on the internet into on place.
  23 I've added the relevant Debian patches to the freshly created git
  24 repository, and expect the Gentoo patches to make it too.  If you got
  25 a DVD collection and care about command line tools, check out
  26 <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/git/ci/master/tree/">the git source</a> and join
  27 <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/mailman/">the project mailing
  28 list</a>. :)</p>